Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > The script originally comes from here: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/33566/focus=33852 > > and the discussion implies that the AUTHOR_DATEs were added to avoid a > race condition with the timestamps. But why would that ever have worked? I do not see how AUTHOR_DATE would affect anything there, either, other than to give reprodusible object names. The test only sets committer-date upfront, so without setting author-date, you would still get different object names on commits. Which suggests me that there may be something that tiebreaks based on object names? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html